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Information Quotes
"Information is the resolution of uncertainty."
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"With comics you can put interesting and solid information in a format that's pretty palatable."
163
"Information on the Internet must be as free as in the newspapers."
127
"An objection is not a rejection; it is simply a request for more information."
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"I want minimum information given with maximum politeness."
63
"One of the effects of living with electric information is that we live habitually in a state of information overload. There's always more than you can cope with."
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"I don't believe anyone has leaked grand jury information."
58
"This was something that was obsessing me and creating a writer's block. To get involved and get stuck in, get the proper information about what's going on has really helped."
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"I have more information in one place than anybody in the world."
54
"We talked a lot about The Best Intentions and how we could shoot certain scenes in different ways with slightly different bits of dialogue and information, so that later on, we could cut the piece more easily and it would still feel complete, even though it was shorter."
52
"I recognized that information was, in many respects, like a public good, and it was this insight that made it clear to me that it was unlikely that the private market would provide efficient resource allocations whenever information was endogenous."
51
"The source known as Deep Throat provided a kind of road map through the scandal. His one consistent message was that the Watergate burglary was just the tip of the iceberg."
51
"Over the past decade, prescribing information has grown more and more complex, more and more dense and more difficult to negotiate."
51
"To live effectively is to live with adequate information."
48
"When you do a cartoon based on news headlines, you do it based on incomplete information."
48
"It is not to benefit CBS, not to benefit its reporters. On this one, the entire basis of it is this is a way to get more information, more important information to the public. And that's why so many states recognize this."
48
"If information is true, if it can be verified, and if it's really important, the newspaper needs to be willing to take the risk associated with using unidentified sources."
47
"On the Internet, inside information is currency, and there will always be counterfeiters among us."
47
"I am disillusioned enough to know that no man's opinion on any subject is worth a damn unless backed up with enough genuine information to make him really know what he's talking about."
47
"But the issue became, how long do you keep the press waiting so that you can gather more information?"
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"Whatever the device you use for getting your information out, it should be the same information."
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"Just the minute the FBI begins making recommendations on what should be done with its information, it becomes a Gestapo."
46
"A newspaper should be the maximum of information, and the minimum of comment."
46
"Information about the package is as important as the package itself."
45
"It's impossible to move, to live, to operate at any level without leaving traces, bits, seemingly meaningless fragments of personal information."
45
"Trade isn't about goods. Trade is about information. Goods sit in the warehouse until information moves them."
45
"Despite the administration's long public information campaign, for many months polls have consistently indicated only 37 percent of those eligible for Medicare say they only partially understand the program."
45
"And it turned out that the Roberts Commission did not fully utilize the information available and that it came to conclusions which were I think quite short sighted and, indeed, in some cases, scapegoated individuals."
45
"Television has done much for psychiatry by spreading information about it, as well as contributing to the need for it."
45
"The speed of communications is wondrous to behold. It is also true that speed can multiply the distribution of information that we know to be untrue."
45
"There are biographies, I looked at a lot of photographs of him, I heard his voice over and over and over again. You get in there and get to know the man by all of those pieces of information."
45
"Genes that underlie the capacity to receive, use and transmit information are the evolving properties."
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"And we've become very doubtful of our information sources, because they're all controlled by these huge multilateral corporations."
44
"If you think you might have secret information listening to me, you're lost."
44
"Our information lives will be better served when we are free to get to our information from wherever we are, with any device available."
44
"Well there are two things: Number one is, make sure you always enjoy yourself, because when you enjoy yourself, you'll learn, you'll want more information, you'll push yourself."
43
"For your information, I would like to ask a question."
43
"Also, schools share some responsibility and should offer helpful orientations that include general information about such recruitment efforts on their campuses."
43
"We mostly feel fearful because we feel powerless. We feel powerless, I contend, because of a style of thinking that splits information in two poles that makes us lose all the operative information we need to solve the problem."
43
"In the New York Times, you're going to get completely different information than you would in the USA Today."
43
"An educated person is one who has learned that information almost always turns out to be at best incomplete and very often false, misleading, fictitious, mendacious - just dead wrong."
43
"It is evident that one cannot say anything demonstrable about the problem before having resolved these preliminary questions, and yet we hardly possess the necessary information to solve some of them."
42
"Incredible that liberals aren't more concerned about the monopoly of information in South Dakota."
42
"I found out that you could audition by sending a picture of yourself and some information to Newsround."
42
"The amount of detailed information which an individual has at his command and his theoretical elaborations of the same are mutually dependent; they grow in and through each other."
42
"Coming tight was boring to me, just the face... it didn't have enough information."
42
"The securities laws of the 1930s were so important because it forced companies to file registration statements and issue prospectuses, and it remedied the imbalance of information."
42
"It can always be transformed into an avenue of information."
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"I did not go to military school. I had an option either a military school or a private school. I don't know how to get that out of the information that's out there."
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